The federal government has tried to reduce barriers...
The federal government has tried to reduce barriers that companies may face in installing broadband infrastructure on federal land and roads, said Homeland Security Director for the Office of Emergency Communications Ron Hewitt and Martha Benson, General Services Administration Office…
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of Real Property Asset Management public buildings service assistant commissioner, in a joint White House blog post Monday (http://1.usa.gov/1ejeS5j). They co-chair the Broadband Deployment on Federal Property Working Group and outlined how many parts of the country still lack adequate broadband. But the federal government “owns or manages nearly 30 percent of all land in the United States, including 10,000 buildings nationwide,” they said. “Today, we are announcing new steps to build on this progress, including the launch of several new tools and resources to help make it easier for companies to build out high-speed Internet, particularly in underserved communities, and the release of a progress report on implementation of the President’s Executive Order.” The tools and the report were developed by a working group of 14 federal agencies charged with managing federal properties and roads, they said. The tools include an interactive map to help stakeholders identify how to leverage federal properties, a dig-once guide and a broadband inventory tool kit. The government is also working on “a single master application for deploying broadband on Federal properties, to provide multiple broadband service providers and public-safety entities with streamlined business documents for the deployment of wireline and wireless facilities on Federal property,” the post said. “In the coming weeks, we will also be launching an online broadband projects platform, located on the Department of Transportation’s Federal Infrastructure Projects Permitting Dashboard, which will allow agencies to identify and expedite key broadband projects and to publicly track their status.”